Chapter 2 The Inheritance of the Drunken Dao

After reading the book for three months in a row, Zhang Xun decided to take a break, so he began a leisurely life, basking in the sun and swimming every day, as if he was on vacation. In this way, it lasted for more than half a month, Zhang Xun felt that it was almost over, so he entered the jade pendant space again, and still entered the study, but this time it was all the inheritance left by the drunken Taoist. Zhang Xun didn't look at it, but when he saw it, he felt that his master was too good at drunken Taoism! Not to talk about cultivating immortals, he only said that he had learned a lot of miscellaneous things in literature and Taoism, not to mention poetry and literature, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, these are some small ways, and the worst can start a sect. Now Zhang Xun finally knew why his cheap master's heart knot was inherited by Wendao, it was a pity not to pass it on, God couldn't bear to see it, so there was a failure of the drunken Taoist.

Zhang Xun knows that his opportunity is not easy to come by, and he must cherish it. Zhang Xun bowed deeply to the portrait of the drunken Taoist three times, then burned incense and cleaned his hands, and prepared to read hard in the cold window. Moreover, Zhang Xun has memories of his previous life, which can be combined to form his own Taoist system. As the saying goes, "I only read the books of the sages and sages, and I don't hear anything outside the window." "Time flies, three years have passed, and he has read all the books on literature and Taoism left by the master, no, it should be said that he has read them all, and most of them have been integrated, and what is not yet incomprehensible is also deeply imprinted in his mind, and when he has enough experience in the future, he will naturally understand. The so-called "true transmission of a sentence, false transmission of thousands of books." "But there is no way, after all, his master's situation is special, so it can only be like this. Fortunately, Zhang Xun has a good understanding, and he also has the cultural heritage of the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties. Zhang Xun's level of literature and Taoism at this time went to the imperial examination, not to mention that he was stable and the champion, at least the jinshi couldn't run.

The inheritance of Wendao came to an end, Zhang Xun was not in a hurry to study the formation, he was a senior otaku in his previous life, and he was obsessed with traditional culture, which was incompatible with reality, resulting in a withdrawn personality. So now it's not unaccustomed to being trapped in one place and trapped in the formation. Zhang Xun decided to make a plan for the next few years. What has not been inherited now is some miscellaneous learning, as for the method of cultivating immortals, it is a very distant thing for Zhang Xun to say now, now he is still a mortal, and he doesn't even have a sense of qi, and that part of the inheritance can't be opened at all, not to mention that Zhang Xun also wants to prosper the Dao first, but then look for the Dao of Immortals.

It's been three years in a flash, and I've finished reading the miscellaneous books, Zhang Xun also admires the drunken Taoist, and I don't know where he found these tens of thousands of books in the old man's house. It can be said that there are thousands of ways in the red world. Such as the way of doing business, the way of being an official, even medicine, numerology, astrology, etc., only you can't think of it, there is nothing that is not covered on this bookshelf. The following year, Zhang Xun decided to copy some classics from his previous life and save them for later use. Mainly "Zizhi Tongjian", "Tiangong Kaiwu", as for the so-called enlightenment readings "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Text", as well as classic articles of literary masters such as Han Yu's "Poetry Said" and "Ma Said", Ouyang Xiu's "The Story of the Drunkard Pavilion", Fan Zhongyan's "The Story of Yueyang Tower" and so on, Zhang Xun has long memorized it backwards. A year has passed, "Zizhi Tongjian" and "Tiangong Kaiwu" have also been written by Zhang Xun according to the memories of his previous life, and what makes Zhang Xun happy is that his Xiaokai has finally become a big man after several years of writing practice. Zhang Xun silently recited in his heart: "Lao Huang (Huang Tingjian in the four famous calligraphers of the Song Dynasty, Su Huangmi Cai), I'm sorry, anyway, there is no you in this other world, so it's cheap to give birth to me." ”

Zhang Xun thought that seven years had passed, and he was twenty-two years old in this life (although there was a disagreement, but it was still no problem to look at his age), it was time to learn the formation and leave here. Just do what he said, walked to the formation bookshelf and took a few copies of "The Initial Solution of the Formation", "Details of Common Formations" and "How to Break the Formation" written by the master, and got them in his hand, and then withdrew from the jade pendant space. After all, the formation is not something that can be learned well by studying hard behind closed doors, and it must be understood by understanding heaven and earth. One Yuan, Two Yi, Three Cai, Four Elephants, Five Elements, Six Dao, Seven Stars, Bagua, Nine Palaces, you can't understand just by reading books, only by understanding the mysteries of heaven and earth, can you have gains.

Zhang Xun began the arduous road of training, sitting on the big stone next to the well every day with the word "Xiaoyaoju" written on it, exposed to the sun and rain, observing the creek and bamboo forest during the day, and looking at the sky and the stars at night. Zhang Xun knew that he had never been in contact with the formation before, and it was not easy to comprehend the wonder of heaven and earth, so he had a very correct mentality. In this way, day and night changed, three months passed, Zhang Xun finally felt a trace of the Taoist intention of the growth of all things between heaven and earth, and immediately silently recited the Taoist pure heart decision, entered the state of emptiness, and suddenly had enlightenment, this is the creation of heaven and earth! Heaven and earth have not opened, and there is chaos. This chaos is not one, but nothing. Chaos continues to accumulate energy, until one day, when it is full and explodes, it is turbid and black and white are one. This is the creation of something out of nothing, the birth of one yuan. Then it is from black to white, and from turbidity. The clear air rises and turns into the sky, and the turbid gas sinks into the earth. This is one yuan and two instruments. At the beginning of the opening of heaven and earth, there was no life, and the heavens had the virtue of good life, so there were flowers and trees, birds and beasts, and later there were people. Zhang Xun laughed and said, "I'm so stupid! Isn't this what Lao Tzu said about the Tao of one, one life two, two three and three things, I only realized it now." "But Zhang Xun also knows that everything is difficult at the beginning, understand these thoroughly, and it will be easy to do later, and he doesn't dare to say that he is a formation master, and it is absolutely no problem to break the bamboo forest. Sixiang, this is all known, the Oriental Green Dragon, "the Green Dragon, the Oriental A and B Wood Mercury is also, the clarity is not clear, the stirring is not turbid, the near is not desirable, the far is not abandoned, the hidden changes are endless, so the dragon is also." Southern Vermilion, "Southern Vermilion, for the joy of the book, without separation, three for the top, two for the bottom, three days and two places of righteousness." The top is wide and the bottom is narrow, and the image of humility is also. The middle wings are eight inches, like eight winds. The waist is four inches wide, like four hours. The circle is like yin and yang and is not poor, but also "the white tiger of the West, the west belongs to the gold in the five elements, and the color is white, so it is called the white tiger." Northern Xuanwu, also known as Zhenwu the Great. The four elephants together, to put it simply, "the green dragon and the white tiger are in the four directions, and the Vermilion Bird Xuanwu is yin and yang." ”

There is nothing to say about the Five Elements Doctrine, which is the way for all things to be born and restrain each other. The five elements are the melting of gold and water, the moisture of water and the growth of wood, the warmth of wood and the warmth of wood, the burning of wood and the birth of soil, and the production of gold from soil and minerals. Xiangke is gold and wood, wood and earth, earth and water, water and fire, and fire and gold. The six realms of reincarnation, Buddhism, heaven, man, asura, animal, hungry ghost, hell. The seven stars are the seven stars of the Big Dipper, which are composed of the seven stars of Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, and Shaoguang. There are two kinds of gossip, namely Fuxi innate gossip and Queen Wen Houtian gossip.

After Zhang Xun had an epiphany, he put his mind at ease and was not in a hurry to break the formation. Instead, they completely relaxed, went to the creek for a swim, and did not go ashore until they were exhausted, returned to the well, and took a shower with water. Zhang Xun has been used to pouring himself every day for more than seven years, and that feeling is cool. After washing, go back to the bed in the inner room of the free house and fall asleep.

The sun rose again, it was a new day, Zhang Xun got up and washed up and entered the jade pendant space again, put the formation books back in place first, and walked out of the study. Zhang Xun also admired that he was really calm enough, and he had been active in the study all these years, but now it was time to go elsewhere. He walked to the second room, opened the door and looked in, and it was empty, except for a table. Zhang Xun walked to the table and saw the dense small characters carved by the drunken Taoist with a knife on the table, it turned out that this room was used for physical training, there were three bottles of strong body pills in the drawer, and there was a picture on the wall, similar to the appearance of Hua Tuo's five poultry plays, it was one hundred and eight action postures, step by step, from easy to difficult. Next to the painting is a plum bottle, and a secret room will appear in half a circle, after all, the body will inevitably discharge impurities in the body, and there must be a place to scrub and scrub. So another half a year passed, Zhang Xun finally practiced his body, and the impurities were exhausted, and his body was full of black mud-like substances, and the stench was unpleasant, and he almost didn't smoke him to death. Zhang Xun hurriedly turned the plum bottle, rushed into the secret room, and began to wash, I don't know how long it took to rinse, until the skin was as smooth and translucent as jade, Zhang Xun stopped, looked at his gradually stronger body in that very obscene smirk, I don't know what inappropriate things for children to remember, it seems that the body of a boy is torment! For a long time, Zhang Xun complained to himself, "I miss your sister, I think, you are a monk here, there is no sister, you want to turn the sky in vain." After complaining, he left the training room that had been in the gym for half a year, got out of the space, returned to the bed and sat cross-legged, and thought about the pure heart. It wasn't until a candle was completely burned that the lust was gone, and he fell asleep.

It was another early morning, Zhang Xun got up, and after washing, he went to the kitchen to fry two cakes for himself and nibbled on them (I'm afraid that some readers will be more serious, here is an explanation, there are rice fields, vegetable fields, tea trees, and wine cellars in Xiaoyaoju, and Zhang Xun will spend some time taking care of them every day.) After eating the cake, Zhang Xun made himself another cup of tea, tasted it carefully, deliberately adjusted himself, and slowed down the rhythm. It wasn't until the tea was refilled three cups and an hour had passed that Zhang Xun entered the space and headed for the third room.

This room is even more interesting, it turns out to be about wine, about drunkenness. However, thinking of the master's Taoist name of a drunken Taoist or even a crazy Taoist person, Zhang Xun was also relieved. Fortunately, Zhang Xun was also a temperamental person in his previous life, what is a temperamental person? Zhang Xun's understanding in his previous life was to drink alcohol and eat meat. Zhang Xun has been obsessed with the true meaning of drunkenness for more than 20 years in his previous life, but he has never really been drunk, just raising a glass to kill his sorrows and pretending to be crazy with wine. However, in the two lives, especially through or drunkenness, Zhang Xun now has some experience of wine culture and the true meaning of drunkenness, in Ouyang Xiu's words, that is, "The drunkard's intention is not in wine, but in the mountains and rivers." In the words of Tang Yin and Tang Bohu, the head of the four great talents in Jiangnan in the early Ming Dynasty, "Everyone is drunk, and I am sober alone." In this way, Zhang Xun stayed in this room for a week, and tasted the general's drunken wine in the master's cellar twice, and the taste was really good.

At present, there are only four rooms visible to Zhang Xun in the jade pendant space, and with a heart of anticipation, the fourth door finally opened when he came to this eighth year. It turned out that there was nothing else in this room, only a biography of the Drunken Daoist's cultivation of immortals, which introduced the various experiences of the Drunken Daoist from the Qi Refining Period to the Tribulation Period. The last page reads, "Boy, it's time for you to leave and go back to the world." Finally, I would like to give you a word of advice, fool, remember the red dust and practice your heart. Remember, remember!"